It’s finally warm and we’re looking forward to the next camping weekend or the upcoming festival in the great outdoors! We enjoy the sun, and the warm temperatures and enjoy life. If we now had a refreshingly cool drink in our hands, our happiness would be complete. But you can’t have everything – or can you?! We have the solution and today we will show you nine ways how you can cool your drinks on the go!
Who doesn’t know this: The camping trip is well prepared, tent, flashlight, insect spray, sunscreen – everything has been thought of. We even chilled the drinks in the fridge before we set off so that we could refresh ourselves later after the strenuous pitching of the tent. But after the car ride, the drinks are no longer cool but have taken on the summer outside temperature. The lukewarm water also quenches our thirst, but it’s not really refreshing.
We have the solution and not just one, but nine tricks on how to cool your drinks on the go! What are you waiting for: pack a tent and your friends and enjoy a wonderful weekend in the countryside – with cool drinks!
Trick 1: Cooling with wet socks
Soak your socks or towel in water and pull them over your soda bottle so it’s completely covered with the wet fabric. Now it is best to place the bottle in the shade so that it is a little drafty. But the trick also works in the sun. The sock water evaporates and thereby produces cold.
Trick 2: Cool with salt
Did you know that you can cool your drinks with salt? All you need is water, salt, and ice. Mix everything together in a 1:1:1 ratio in a large container that will fit all the drinks. The salt will make the ice melt. This requires energy, which is drawn from the beverage bottles.
This cools them down quickly to a few degrees Celsius above zero and you can enjoy cold drinks after a few minutes! However, make sure that you do not use too much salt and do not store the drinks in the mixture for too long. Otherwise, there is a risk that the bottles will burst.
Trick 3: Cooling with nitrogen fertilizer
You can buy nitrogen fertilizer from garden supply stores (buy on Amazon). So that it cools your drinks on the way, you have to mix the fertilizer with water in a ratio of 2:1 (fertilizer: water). A chemical reaction cools the water down to ten degrees Celsius. With this cooling variant, it should be noted that the mixture can be a bit sticky – so it is best to protect your drinks with plastic bags.
Trick 4: Cooling in a hole in the ground
This cooling variant is a bit more labor-intensive but works great. Dig a large enough hole about half a meter deep. The drinks are stored in this hole.
Now make a cover as dense as possible from earth and grass. Your drinks stay pleasantly cool under the lid for several days. At some campsites, digging a hole in the grass with a spade and shovel may not be well received. To avoid trouble, it is best to find out before digging whether this type of cooling is permitted on the campsite.
Trick 5: Cooling with dry ice
You can get dry ice quite cheaply from specialist retailers (buy it from Amazon). Five kilograms cost about 20 euros. It is best to find out on the Internet where the nearest dry ice supplier is in your area. The frozen carbonic acid is available in solid form as snow, blocks, or slices.
Depending on storage, the dry ice keeps the drinks cool for one to five days. But be careful: Never touch the dry ice with your hands, there is a risk of injury. In addition, dry ice is not suitable for adding to drinks!
Trick 6: Cooling with the grill
This cooling variant is a bit adventurous and only works on sandy ground. Dig a small hollow in the ground and put some bottles or cans in it. The drinks are now covered with sand, poured over with alcohol, and set on fire. Insanely, the fire cools the drinks because it extracts energy from the sand in the form of heat. But before you start torching, find out about the campground’s fire regulations!
Trick 7: Cooling with cutter ice
The fish in the display are cooled with cutter ice at the fresh food counter in the supermarket. The ice is inexpensive and keeps for up to four days, making it perfect for chilling drinks on the go. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to get, it’s only available in gastro wholesalers or butcher shops.
Trick 8: Cool in layers
Here, a clever layer system is used for cooling. Measure how many bottles or cans fit in your toolbox. You then divide your supply of drinks into three groups of equal size: Some of the drinks are frozen in the freezer. The second part is cooled down to about one degree Celsius in the cooling compartment. The rest of the drinks are stored in the refrigerator as normal.
Once the drinks have reached the desired temperature, the cool box is filled as follows: the frozen drinks go all the way down. The frozen drinks are layered in the middle. The fridge-cold cans and bottles go on top. Now cover the cool box with a wet towel to make additional use of the evaporative cooling.
Trick 9: Cooling with the self-cooling beer keg
Attention all beer drinkers: With this cooling variant, you can have freshly tapped, cold beer all day long (buy from Amazon). The evaporative cooling cools the barrel down to a pleasantly refreshing drinking temperature within 45 minutes. Admittedly, this cooling option is not exactly cheap and the deposit for the barrel is relatively high. But with a self-cooling mini tap, the festival or camping weekend will be upgraded quite a bit – and the envious looks of your tent neighbors are guaranteed!
